Things to find in Iran

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• Ali Sadr Cave Cave
  One of the largest water caves in the world, in the mountains of Hamadan Province, Iran, and among the very few you tour by boat, gliding in silence through miles of flooded passage under a ceiling of pale formations reflected in...
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• Nishapur turquoise Gem & mineral ground
  For over two thousand years the mines above Nishapur in northeastern Iran produced the finest turquoise in the world, the sky-blue “Persian turquoise” that set the standard everywhere and traveled the Silk Road to every court....
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• The Towers of Silence, Yazd Haunted place
  Zoroastrians hold earth, fire and water sacred and will not pollute them with a corpse, so for centuries the dead were carried up to circular stone towers, dakhma, open to the sky, and left for the vultures; the bones were later...
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